Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 203 3 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The canonical Dirichlet Green function on the unit disc with its pole at zero is . Conformal invariance of the planar Green kernel therefore givesComparing with yieldsThis also explains the boundary data: when , the correction is . The composition with is harmonic by conformal invariance of harmonicity. Its apparent singularity at is removable because the quotient defining extends to .
Evaluating there proves the regular part of the planar Dirichlet Green function formulaOn an unbounded domain, boundary values alone need not specify a unique harmonic function. Here is the correction belonging to the canonical Dirichlet Green kernel, which fixes that ambiguity.